Satyam gets part of GM order from HP and Cap Gemini

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03 February 2006

HP and Capgemini, two major technology vendors to General Motors, have sub-contracted part of the orders received yesterday from GM to Satyam Computer Services. Satyam said the total value of such sub-contracts would be around $150 million over the next 5 years.

GM had announced yesterday that it has awarded outsourcing contracts for the next five years to companies like EDS, HP, Capgemini and Wipro. Out of a total of around $7.5 billion worth of contracts announced, Wipro had received orders worth $300 million yesterday.

Satyam is also inaugurating a development centre focused on the auto industry in Detroit, the home of US auto industry. The centre would have around 50 engineers and would offer automotive engineering solutions, automotive electronics, real time manufacturing, supply chain, automotive enterprise solution and digital manufacturing.

Satyam said it would be one of the first companies to launch digital manufacturing practise for the auto industry. Digital manufacturing leverages IT to collaboratively develop the manufacturing plan and manufacturing equipment simultaneously with the product. Design flaws, manufacturing kinks and inefficient processes can thus be hammered out and corrected early on when changes create little disruption of critical time-to-market schedules..

It will focus on automotive industry specific solution building and R&D, leveraging Satyam's alliances with leading industry domain and technology solution providers as well as leading academic and research institutions.

Some of the areas of focus at the centr, to be called ACE, would include automotive engineering solutions, automotive electronics, real time manufacturing, supply chain, automotive enterprise solution and digital manufacturing.

With the launch of its digital manufacturing practice, Satyam is well placed to tap the forecasted spend of multibillion dollars by 2009 for digital manufacturing software and services.